National Art Museum of Ukraine
Neoclassical art museum with a Doric portico, rooftop griffins and cast lions guarding its stairs.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv is about the building rather than the paintings, and about one craftsman in particular: Emilio Sala, a Milanese sculptor who came to Kyiv at the end of the eighteen-nineties to decorate a new museum of antiquities. It follows his partnership with the architect Władysław Horodecki and the workshop habits of a trade that shaped the city's streets. Best heard at the top of the front stairs, between the lions.
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